Although we cannot get into the minds of the people waiting in a queue on a cold day in Chukotka, Soviet Union back in 1985 to get wine, or what the daredevil sky boys who built the Empire State Building in 1930-31 were thinking when balancing unsecured on the 88th floor, we can get a fairly good glimpse into the wonders of history.

Thanks to photography, a new means of visual representation that debuted in 1839 and startled the entire world, a lot of incredible moments of the past are now carved into film forever. So today we’re taking a miscellaneous history class, one you wouldn’t have skipped at school, thanks to this educational Facebook page titled “Historic Photographs.”

With almost 2.5M followers, the page is an online destination for rare historical photos and incredible stories behind them. Below we selected some of the most captivating ones, so pull your seat closer!

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Wednesday, 25 May 2022

“Be A Witness To The Events That Changed Mankind”: 70 Iconic Historical Photographs Shared On This Page

#1 Niagara Falls Froze Over In 1883

#2 Residents Of West Berlin Show Their Children To Their Grandparents Living In East Berlin, 1961

#3 The FBI Finger Print Files, 1944

#4 A 'Knocker-Up' In London (1929). Before Alarm Clocks, People Were Paid To Wake Clients Up For Work By Knocking On Their Doors And Windows With A Stick

#5 The Roof Of An Old Fiat Factory. Yes, That Is A Track. (Lingotto, Turin - Italy)

#6 On August 23, 1989, About 2 Million People From Latvia, Estonia And Lithuania Formed A Human Chain That United All 3 Countries To Show The World Their Desire To Escape The Soviet Union And The Communism That Brought Only Suffering And Poverty. This Power Stretched 600 Km

#7 An Elevator Parking Lot In Chicago, 1930s

#8 German Soldier Helps A Little Boy Sneak Across The Berlin Wall, 1961

#9 A German Officer And An Nco Wearing Portable Sound Locating Apparatae To Detect Enemy Aircraft (This Was A Type Of Early Radar). Western Front, 1917

#10 Sir Winston Churchill, In 1895, Age 20

#11 Sailors Saluting A War Veteran, Leningrad 1989

#12 The First Photo Of Chernobyl On The Morning Of The Nuclear Disaster (April 26, 1986). The Heavy Grain Is Due To The Huge Amount Of Radiation In The Air That Began To Destroy The Camera Film The Second It Was Exposed For This Photo. Photo Taken By Igor Kostin

#13 World War I Field: More Than 100 Years Later

#14 A Motor Home In 1922

#15 Mary Wallace: First Female Bus Driver For Chicago Transit Authority, 1974 (Colorized)

#16 Pablo Picasso Painted This When He Was 15 Years Old

#17 Residents Of Hanoi Wait In Chest-Deep Sidewalk Shelters For The All Clear Signal, During An Air Raid Alert. Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1967

#18 American Soldiers At Mass In The Rubble At Cologne Cathedral, March 1945

#19 1300 Years Old Tree, Cut Down In 1891. Note The Events Correlated With The Tree's Circles

#20 20-Year-Old Helen Mirren Dressed For Her Role As Cleopatra In A Theatrical Production, 1965

#21 World War One Memorial In Vácrátót (Hungary)

#22 Rosa Parks Sits At The Front Of A Bus Following The End Of Racial Segregation By The Transit Company, Circa 1965

#23 Nan Wood Graham And Dr. Byron Mckeeby Pictured In 1942 Recreating Their Original Poses For The Iconic ‘American Gothic’. She Was The Painter’s Sister, And He Was Their Dentist

#24 Long Before Color-Sensitive Film Was Invented, Russian Photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Took 3 Individual Black And White Photos, Each With A Filter (Red, Blue And Green) To Create High Quality Photos In Full Color. This Self Portrait Is Over 110 Years Old

#25 Monica Bellucci And Gianni Versace, 1995

#26 How The Chevy Vega Was Shipped In 1971

#27 Vintage Photo Documenting The Discovery Of An Ancient Maya Statue Deep Within The Jungles Of Honduras (1885)

#28 Fixing The Antenna On The World Trade Center, New York City, 1979. Photo By Peter B. Kaplan

#29 There Was A Time When You Could See The Core Structure Of The Twin Towers. (1970, During The Construction)

#30 Three Generations Of Women Outside Their Stone Cottage In Ireland 1927

#31 Us Cavalry Soldiers Pose In Front Of A Tree Known As The "Grizzly Giant" 1900. The Tree Still Stands

#32 A Civil Servant With A Manually Operated Traffic Signal, Philadelphia, 1922

#33 Outdoor Gymnasium And Playground, Chicago, 1903

#34 The Seal Of Tutankhamun's Tomb (On The Third Golden Shrine) Before It Was Opened In 1923. It Was Unbroken For Over 3000 Years

#35 On Set Of Jaws Movie, An Effectsman Repairs The Shark's Teeth. 1974

#36 Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer

#37 Star Wars Characters Together From Left To Right : Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker And R2-D2, 1977

#38 The Level Of Detail On The Column Of Marcus Aurelius In Rome Which Was Completed Around Ad 193

#39 Abraham Lincoln At Antietam During The Civil War. Left: Allan Pinkerton, Right: Gen John Mcclernand. 1862. (Colorized)

#40 Homecoming Prisoner Of War - Vienna, Austria.1946. Photo By Ernst Haas

#41 Piles Of Rifles Surrendered By German Soldiers After The End Of The Second World War, 1945

#42 A Summer Day, 112 Years Ago. Autochrome Taken By Paul Bergon C.1910

#43 Children Working In Coal Mines In Pennsylvania, 1911. (Photo By Lewis Hine)

#44 A Young Woman Taking In The Scale Model For The Newly Planned World Trade Center. Late 1960s

#45 Brigitte Bardot, 1950

#46 A 32 Year Old Mom Trying To Start A New Life In California, March 1937

#47 Huntington Beach, California, During The Oil Boom Of 1928

#48 Arnold Schwarzenegger Meeting Soviet Fans In Moscow, 1988

#50 Negotiation Between The Zoo Director And Escaped Chimpanzee. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988

#51 A Dapper Group On Their Way To Church, Chicago 1940s

#52 Robert Wadlow, The Tallest Person In Recorded History For Whom There Is Irrefutable Evidence. (1940)his Height Was 8 Ft 11 In (2.72 M) While His Weight Reached 439 Lb (199 Kg) At His Death At Age 22

#53 Size Of Flag Flown On A Spanish Ship During The Battle Of Trafalgar, 1805.this Flag Was Flown On The San Ildefonso. The Ship Carried 80 Cannons And Howitzers. It Was Captured By The British Royal Navy During The Battle

#54 Benjamin Bowden Showing Off His Spacelander Bicycle On September 17, 1946

#55 In 1864 Group Of Samurai Went On A Tourist Tour In Egypt And Took A Photo In Front Of Sphinx. They Were Members Of Ikeda Mission (Second Japanese Embassy To Europe)

#56 The Sioux Nation Of Native Americans Teepees Spread Across The Great Plains In 1800s (Image Believed To Have Been Taken In The Dakota Territory)

#57 Silent Film Actress, Delores Costello, Drew Barrymore's Grandmother, 1928.

#58 150 Million Year Old Dinosaur Footprints In France

#59 Marilyn Monroe Photographed By Earl Leaf 1950

#60 In The Final Stages Of The Vietnam War In 1975, President Ford Ordered The Mass Evacuation Of Vietnamese Orphans From Saigon. Operation Babylift Saved More Than 3,000 Orphans

#61 Helen Keller Teaching Charlie Chaplin The Manual Alphabet. The Two First Met In 1918 Where Keller Would Communicate With Chaplin By Reading His Lips With Her Hand, Feeling The Movements Of His Jaw And Vibrations Of The Throat